Yeah... because two wrongs make a right.

Some times they certainly do. Consider — killing a man is wrong, right? But adding the second wrong of killing an attacker trying to kill you makes a right...

Likewise, cheating an entity, that cheats you may be perfectly ethical — when you can not, as is the case with governments, to simply stop dealing with the cheater.

Once that attitude is developed, it becomes hard to shed and is often applied even when unjustified and, indeed, quite unethical.

What I wrote was not an excuse, but an explanation...

On principle alone, Congress should never cede power to the Executive or Judicial Branches.

And this bullshit just shows the practical pitfalls of abdicating your responsibilities to someone else.

Well I think that's not the same was wanting fewer quests, but wanting less hand-holding in the quests. For example, I wouldn't mind if quests didn't always give map-markers telling you exactly where to go. Or maybe the markers could be more vague, like a shading on the map showing an area, or instructions like "Head to this town, and then go northeast" and the town is marked, but the location isn't.

Because I agree with you in the sense that, after a while, these games can just turn into "Go wherever the marker points you, have a perfunctory conversation with an NPC, and then go to where the new marker points." I don't like that. However, I do like having a list of missions that I can be doing, and I like a little hand-holding. I don't like spending hours trying to figure out where I'm supposed to go and what I'm supposed to do because the developers made it all unclear, but I do like exploring, finding things, and figuring things out for myself.

We have freedom of speech in America. You can deny any holocaust you'd like to deny, because that's speech. However, a business can't refuse to do business with customers on the basis of religion, and I suspect the argument here is religious discrimination.

Really? This is news to you? If you use Facebook, you are product. Facebook certainly provides a useful service: selling that product to its customers: advertisers.

US courts force companies to provide a service they do not want to provide and have no contract to provide routinely, or haven't you been following all the gay marriage drama?

People growing up under oppressive governments have much fewer problems with cheating — because cheating government is a fair game. It rubs off — and the attitude is quickly extended to non-governmental institutions large and even smaller ones.

This is not "racism" — ex-Soviets like myself often have the same problem... A cheating Western student fears (or used to fear) the shame of being exposed. A Chinese — or a Soviet — fears merely getting caught. Like a speeding ticket — there is no shame in driving fast, only in being stopped by "the bear".

China today uses drones to catch cheaters — America had not felt the need for such measures. Perhaps, it was a foolish attitude, because we the immigrants bring all our traits to the "wonderful tapestry of diversity", not just the good ones...

Anybody dealing with Chinese companies (or Russian ones, if you can find any), ought to be careful and not depend merely on trust.

Reading through the summary I can't see a breakthrough in cancer so I'm pretty dubious an IT shift has "saved lives" unless somehow it is directing more funds into research - but I doubt that is the case.

I'm not saying the banning of the Sikh pages makes any sense. I just don't think there is any jurisdiction here.

It raises the stink, which may push FB to reconsider this or related decisions.

Ukrainians should do the same because Facebook — its "Ukrainian" office located in Russia — regularly shuts down pro-Ukrainian pages, while leaving the openly hateful and violence-threatening pro-Russian ones running... Whether it is evidence of the employees' bias, or simply a factor of there being too many Russian-bots filing automated complaints 24x7, a lawsuit filed by Ukrainians in the US might help...

And there's that Aeronautics word in their name, unlike "Muslim Outreach", whatever the fuck that is.

Yeah....but it is the coolest and fastest fucking plane ever built.

Very obviously whoever made this smart decision never had to do a hostile takeover of an internal project. You get all the information you ask for, not one word more. You don't know what questions to ask? Wow, sucks to be you.

I really doubt it will be any different in this case. They will give them all the information they have to relay to ensure they cannot be considered hostile, while leaving out everything that "they assumed that the new guy already had to know". It's just common sense, ya know? Everyone knows that. Ask around in the office, everyone will tell you that this is something you really don't have to spell out simply because it's OBVIOUS. It's not to your new hire? Gee, maybe you should have hired someone who knows his trade? Ok, I'll make sure the new tech will learn everything from now on and explain it all to him. Ok. Look, new guy. This here we call a hammer...

The problem is that the government is influencing the market by allowing companies to pay these people less by virtue of their immigration status. A H1-B is sponsored by a particular company. They can't just quit and go find a better paying position when they are abused/under paid/etc.

Because the native worker can legally own a gun.